User:OpenScientist/ESOF 2012/Publishing scientific data

About
''This page hosts a proposal for a scientific session at the Euroscience Open Forum 2012 that will take place in Dublin from 11-15 July, 2012. It was submitted on 30 June, 2011 and rejected in November. Call. ''

Title
Publishing scientific data

Programme
Scientific Programme

Theme
Science: Reshaping the Frontiers of Knowledge

Session format
Panel

Abstract
Scientific communities essentially centre around different kinds of data and the methods used for their generation. Ongoing specialization produces a wider variety of data, and digitization fuels the generation of ever larger amounts of data. In an increasingly interconnected digital science landscape, there is a growing interest in reusing shared data, but the sharing itself is actually not rewarded by current research performance metrics.

One solution to this essentially cultural problem is to hybridize the act of sharing data with an act of formal publication by way of data papers or data journals. While some of these have existed for over a decade, it is only now that such publication venues start to flourish, despite the multiple challenges that persist. These include the hosting of data, their indexing, archiving, visualization, peer review, version control, retrieval, citation, reuse and long-term preservation, as well as ethical issues like patient privacy and community norms like giving proper attribution.

The purpose of this session is to highlight emerging standards in several of these domains and the approaches taken by several scientific communities to the issue of publishing and sharing data.

Target audience
Scientific publishers, researchers, research institutions, research funders, research communicators and other stakeholders in fields pertaining to scientific research.

Length of session
90 min

Special needs and remarks
General remark: The session will be prepared on-wiki at http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/User:OpenScientist/ESOF_2012/Publishing_scientific_data. IT requirements: stable LAN for the panelists, stable WLAN for the audience. Remote participation is encouraged.